Performance Technology Quotes

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

Most people privilege the technology, almost as if actors are in service to the machine.

Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

I wish there was an autotune for acting. That would make everyone win the best acting award immediately.

I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.